The S2000 regulations are aimed at reducing costs and encouraging more teams to participate in the WRC and other national rally championships. The S2000 is significantly cheaper than the current WRC cars and are no less spectacular.

Currently there are only two manufactures competing in the WRC – Citroen and Ford, but Toyota, Volkswagen, Peugeot, Skoda, Fiat, Proton, Lada, Suzuki, MG, Renault and Opel already have S2000 cars competing in various national rally championships that have already adopted the S2000 sporting regulations. Skoda has already tested its Fabia S2000 rally cars in various WRC events this year while Kimi Raikkonen recently tested the Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000 at the WRC event in Finland at the end of last month. Former WRC stalwarts, Mitsubishi and Subaru might also begin development of S2000 vehicles.

Citroen is now considering a limited production run of as many as 20 units. Besson did not confirm when the production will commence nor the exact technical specifications for the vehicle but did hint that the power Citroen GT would probably be powered by a V8 engine from either Ford or General Motors. Well, given the sorry state the GM find’s itself, Citroen will need to produce the car pretty soon if it’s going to the GM powerplant. Even GM’s own auditors are beginning to worry that GM might not survive the current economic crisis!